Astral Signal Posted by Matt W

Gene Harris: Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong and Dont Call Me Nigger, Whitey From: Astral Signal [Blue Note, 1974] Keeping the latin flavour going on from where maru left off, with that face melting Arthur Verocai LP, I bring forth a couple of tracks from the Gene Harris album Astral Signal. The LP is typical of the mid seventies, Jazz fused with other styles of music, funk, pop, latin etc... Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong was a regular dj spin of Giles Peterson's many Years ago, It was on his sunday evening slot with kiss fm where I first heard this track, it contains all the right ingredients, some funky wah wah guitar, fat lazy drums and raw fuzzy moog all topped with some angelic lovely la la vocals. The second song goes deep into moog and funk territory, the anti racist theme to the track is obvious from the title, eh? Gene has skillfully flipped the serious topic of the song alongside a upbeat headonistic party storming tune, enjoy.